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As a seasoned graphic designer with over 5 years of hands-on experience across the e-commerce, entertainment, and pharmaceutical industries I have honed my skills in crafting visually stunning digital and print collateral tailored for diverse needs in marketing, events, social media, internal communications, presentations, and web platforms. With a strong emphasis on branding and conceptual thinking, I thrive on transforming ideas into captivating visual narratives that leave a lasting impression. Additionally, I possess specialized skills in digital photography and photo retouching, enhancing my ability to deliver impactful and cohesive design solutions.

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EXPERIENCE

2021-2023
Revance Therapeutics Inc.

Brand Designer
(Sept 2021 - Dec 2023)

Played a pivotal role in fortifying the corporate brand's integrity, ensuring a consistent and impactful visual representation across various touchpoints, including social media, events, presentations, print materials, internal communications, emails, HR initiatives, and logos.

Ideated and delivered compelling and memorable designs for a wide range of corporate events and presentations, enhancing brand presence and effectively communicating Revance Therapeutics' innovative positioning within the industry.

Collaborated seamlessly across brands, contributing to social media strategies, conceptualizing marketing campaigns, and crafting engaging marketing emails. Flexibly provided design support to other brands while maintaining a primary focus on the corporate brand.

Applied a forward-thinking approach to design, consistently bringing fresh ideas and innovative solutions to the table. Contributed to the evolution of the brands by adapting to market trends and ensuring the visual language resonated with the target audience.

2021-2023
Living Proof

Part-time Production Artist
(Dec 2021 - June 2023)

Expanded campaign designs and imagery seamlessly into homepage/hero banners, Google Ad spots, and engaging animated social executions, amplifying brand visibility and impact.

Expertly retouched the company's extensive image catalog for product photoshoots and rebranding materials, ensuring a refined and cohesive visual representation.

Applied creative stylization and corrections to imagery, infusing a festive and compelling aesthetic into the 2021 Holiday campaign and packaging.

Demonstrated flexibility by stepping in to design email touch-points and campaigns during peak workloads, ensuring a consistent and high-quality output.

2020-2021
Freelance

Digital Designer
(Dec 2020 - Sept 2021)

Redesigned a Reebok copywriter’s portfolio website. Throughout this process, we revamped her site layout, refreshed old creative, and added two new project pages, both of which required tweaks to original designs and creative built from scratch.

Collaborated with LA musician, Jay Summer, to produce social and promotional imagery for an upcoming album release across 18 separate photoshoots.

2019 - 2020
Reebok

Designer
(nov 2019 - Dec 2020)

Spearheaded the look and feel of Reebok First Pitch, an external microsite initiative designed to drive engagement. This included conceptualizing the interactive functionality, allowing users to vote on pre-rendered shoe designs, effectively gauging consumer interest and generating anticipation. Led the creation of all assets for the First Pitch Announcement, Launch, and subsequent shoe drops.

Applied precision to retouching and color correction of imagery for Reebok’s 2020 global holiday toolkit, ensuring a visually stunning and cohesive representation aligned with the brand's global standards.

Produced a diverse range of assets, including social ads, display ads, CRM content, and homepage assets. Contributed to the success of US activations for promotions and shoe launches through visually compelling and strategically designed materials.

2017 - 2019
Rue Gilt Groupe

Associate Designer
(Aug 2018 – Nov 2019)

Designed high-performing promotions and immersive experiences for Rue La La and Gilt's homepages and CRM, contributing to the overall success and engagement of these platforms.

Orchestrated the creation of assets for brand partnerships with industry giants like Westin, Pandora, Vince, and Access Hollywood, ensuring seamless integration of collaborative efforts into Rue Gilt Groupe's visual landscape.

Provided mentorship to contract and junior designers, overseeing and approving assets before submission for final approval by senior designers. Played a pivotal role in maintaining the quality and consistency of design deliverables.

Led the conceptualization of Rue La La’s Holiday 2018 flash sale creative, infusing innovation and creativity into the brand's holiday marketing strategy.

Offered expert advice on complex retouching and photo-editing requirements for the entire design team, ensuring a high standard of visual excellence across all projects.

Production artist
(Nov 2017 – Aug 2018)

Oversaw the management of retouching and color-correction needs throughout the design production process, ensuring the highest visual standards for Rue Gilt Groupe's assets.

Boosted team productivity by independently developing Photoshop actions for streamlined asset export, contributing to increased efficiency in the overall design workflow.

Took on the role of Associate Designer during the holiday season, crafting graphic assets and PFP images for Rue La La's homepage. Contributed to the festive visual appeal and success of holiday campaigns.

Maintained and managed servers across production and design teams, ensuring the seamless transfer of all Rue Gilt Groupe imagery. Played a crucial role in maintaining a smooth and reliable technical infrastructure.

Compiled upcoming sale designs into daily site mockups, presenting a cohesive visual representation for the Creative Director's review with the whole team at the start of each day, this contributed to the collaborative and iterative design process.

Photo Production Assistant
(Aug 2017 – Dec 2017)

Provided invaluable support to multiple Art Directors, Photographers, and models on set, ensuring the seamless execution of creative direction across an impressive 6-8 shoots per day.

Managed the CaptureOne interface with precision and maintained high-volume file organization for photographers, contributing to a smooth and efficient workflow in the dynamic photo production environment.

Oversaw the usage of high-end photo equipment, including Profoto strobes, batteries, Canon cameras, computers, and laptops for on-location tethering. Ensured the reliability and optimal performance of equipment critical to the success of each shoot.

Provided guidance to freelance photographers unfamiliar with high-end equipment, sharing insights and correct techniques to maximize the potential of sophisticated photography tools.

Demonstrated initiative by reorganizing the equipment closet during free time, enhancing the overall organization and accessibility of equipment. This proactive approach contributed to increased efficiency for fellow Assistants.

2016
Getmii Inc.

Marketing Intern
(Apr 2016 - Aug 2016)

Work as an intern for the Getmii start up at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Through this role, I experienced the chaos and joy of the early stages of development at a startup.

Proposed, designed, presented, and tested new UI functionalities to strengthen the in app experience.

Produced photoshoots to create content for Getmii’s various marketing needs (e. g. social ads, crm, presentation decks, etc)

 

REFERENCES

Quinn, first off, is unique. He always brought a positive attitude and energy to the team. His ideas improved the teams efficiencies in the production process for onsite design assets. In our fast pace world of e-comm, his ability to execute designs at a high-level made him one of the best to work with. We could always count on him to deliver no matter the challenge.”


NICHOLAS CHIN
Senior Web Designer at Reebok

Quinn has the passion and drive to succeed in any setting. He is very independent, dealing well with feedback and thinking outside of the box to formulate solutions with minimal guidance. Incredibly skilled with photoshop and photo editing, he takes pride in teaching others new methods to improve their work. It’s been an honor to see him grow in his career and help him along the way.”


MEREDITH LINDSEY
Senior Graphic Designer at Rue Gilt Groupe


Quinn is an utter delight to work with: thoughtful, precise, and creative. He is both a strong conceptual thinker and a detail-minded craftsman, and he commits his considerable skills to each and every challenge presented to him.”


JOSEPH GORDON CLEVELAND
Art Director at Rue Gilt Groupe


Quinn absolutely slayed my website redesign. He took my stale portfolio and revamped the layout, fixed old creative, and added in two pages of new content that included a lot of design tweaks and creative built from scratch. I appreciated his patience, communication, high-quality design work, and problem-solving skills throughout the months-long process. I can’t wait to work with him again!


ALLISON REBECCA PENN
Copywriter at Reebok

 

Contact

I’m currently on the lookout for new freelancing opportunities! If you’ve got an idea and want to set up a discovery session to talk it through—let’s chat!

quinn.tmcl@gmail.com